The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-26
THE ELLIS MEMORIAL.

Rev. J. COLEMAN ADAMs's appreciative
notice of the Ellis Memorial appears on
our first page this week.
REV. M. d. SHUTTER, OF the Church of
the Redeemer, Minneapolis, writes: st
am much pleased with the Ellis Memo
rial. The sermons are written in a very
graceful and pleasing style and show the
author to have been a man of wide cult
ure, deep spiritual insight and fine liter
ary taste. regret that I could not have
known him."
The Cambridge Tribune remarks:
"Faith and Righteousness " is the appro-
PIRATE title of a memorial of Rev. Sumner
Ellis, ID. D., lately issued by the Universalist
Publishing House. 1t contains an outline of
his life and ministry prepared by his lifelong
friend, Rev. @. R. Moor, of Cambridge, and a
group of thirteen of his sermons selected by
Rev. j. s. Cantwell, D. D., of Chicago. The
record of his life which Mr.. Moor gives is of
necessity only sketch, but it pictures in
strong lines personality at once refined,
stHdlous, devoted, winning and helpful. DR..
Ellis was in very high sense a Christian
gentleman. His fine literary tastes, his
dignity and gentleness of manner, his sin
cerity and earnest piety, were characteristics
that won for him many friends. Mr.. Moor
has done his work with good taste and effect
lively. The likeness is a speaking one, and is
htly accompanied by an excellent portrait
The sermons are we'll chosen, and are marked
by the warm-heartedness, the faith and the
fine literary taste of the author.
The Gospel Banner presents the fol-
lowing appreciatiye estimate of DR.. Ellis,
and the memorial volume.
One year ago Sumner Ellis passed from
earth to heaven. He was rare spirit among
men-intellectually acute, broad and liberal,
and spiritually quick, sensitive and profound.
His fine mental gifts had been assiduously
cultivated for forty years, and his moral and
spiritual nature kept pace with his intellect
ual progress, which was rapid from his eight
zenith year to the close of his life at nearly
fifty eight. He was by nature a student, a
preacher of the undemonstrative yet quietly
effective type, writer of surprising talent
for lucid, fOrceful, elegant and effective COM
position. he was IN constant communion
with the best things in nature and life and
with the Author of them all. A cultivated
saint, his presence was a benediction and his
written thought is a blessing to all who Pc
ruse the writings of his that are accessible.
These statements will have confirmation
from inc reauer OF tnese memorial pages and
the sermons which accompany them. There
are thirteen sermons in the collection selected
by DIR. Cantwell of Chicago, and in them the
mature thought of their author on profound
ly important themes is presented for the nour-
ishment and broadening of other minds. Mr..
Moor has given graphic and comprehensive
outline of his beloved friend and co-laborer,
and his work is done with a degree of litera-
ry skill that COMFORTS with the perfection of
the character he portrays and the rhetorical
finish of the disconrses appended. Ministers
should read this book; laymen also; in fact
all in every family among as, from the youth
in his teens to the aged ones therein, would
be greatly helped by making its contents
their own. 1t is liberal in quantity and pre-
cious in quality-a comely book at low
price.